Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts.

A teacher is held on a pedestal, most teachers are expected to maintain a positive self for society which is a paradigm. A teaching profession is constantly changing due to the effect of coming in contact with different cultures and changing mandated laws. For example, as history has it in the 1920’s, a teacher was expected to be a female, who could not be married, have children, dress in certain attires where barley any skin is shown, and was restricted to hang out at certain places like an ice cream parlor, talk about a paradigm shift. In today’s society a teacher’s gender is not an issue, they can be married and have children unlike in the 1920’s, but is still monitor to be a role model to students, parents, and his/her faculty members. Paradigm shift/change has impacted the learning tools teacher’s used today. The tools used are more sophisticated and greatly demanded by students to use them, like the use of a computer. Teachers experience great paradigm shift when encountered with students who are disable, speak another language, or frame with some mental disorder. Because of such diversity in the classroom, it is important for a teacher to experience these changes. Politics has mainstream into education, providing help and assistance to children who are from a low income home to eat a healthy breakfast everyday and also provide free lunch to those who need it. Other services, like the Head Start Program are offered to early childhood education, and these are changes to better help students to succeed in the classroom. Have I had a paradigm shift? I think each and every one of us has experience a paradigm shift/change. Growing up some of us was taught about what success is, and should be. For some of us, success is perceived as having a lot of money and living a life of luxury. For others, success can be as simple as just being content and living a moderate lifestyle. A perfect example of a paradigm shift right now is our economy. I personally experience the wrath of being laid off from a job that I had been in for ten years, never thinking that something like that could have ever happen to me. The shift in our economy has reframed my mind. I looked at this as an opportunity, to explore my mind and self to a limitless future for success as a teacher. Transforming to this change will prepare me to accept diversity.